The present invention relates to photographing technologies of terminals, and provides a photographing method and a terminal, so as to resolve an existing problem of complex operations when a user photographs. The method is applied to a mobile terminal equipped with at least one camera, and includes: determining, by the mobile terminal, whether the mobile terminal meets a preset condition, where the preset condition may include matching of a posture feature of the mobile terminal with a standard posture feature that is used to represent a posture feature of the mobile terminal when a user uses a first camera to photograph; and if the mobile terminal determines that the mobile terminal meets the preset condition, starting the first camera to photograph.